Everyone loves good emoji, am I right, folks? Well, we’re getting a light lineup of expressive characters in the forthcoming Emoji 13.1, which will arrive sometime in 2021. There are 217 in total, but ...

Emojis are practically a separate language when talking to people online. It doesn't matter whether you speak English, French, or Mandarin; you can easily understand what your friend is trying to say ...

Not to be dramatic, but literally where would we be without the heart emoji? Of all the emoji genres out there, those cute, colourful little hearts are perhaps the most beloved, the most actually ...

Emojis are a very handy way of adding much-needed emotion to text-only messages. How do we know if somebody's kidding? Sometimes we don't, unless they add a silly winking face to the end of a missive.

For emoji lovers, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: when we learn the latest batch of emoji likely to end up on our phones and tablets in the coming months. But this year’s candidates look a ...

We are using the term emoji quite loosely here, because you can’t actually hack into the official Unicode list. Reading time 5 minutes Was there ever a time that we were able to communicate without ...

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...